HopSaSam

Client Brewer in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Established in 2012

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Sint-Salvatorsstraat 4, Oudenaarde, 9700, Belgium
Description
HopSaSam is an independent beer architect that loves to create new beer styles, flavours, combinations,...

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7.5/10
33 cl bottle from the brewer
Tried from Bottle on 11 Sep 2021 at 10:45

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Very dark brown with creamy head. Aroma and flavour have a touch of sweet liquorice. Maybe some aniseed too. Misses some bitterness.
Tried on 23 Aug 2021 at 13:50

6.5/10
33 cl bottle from the brewer
Tried from Bottle on 14 Aug 2021 at 10:49

5.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 6
7/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle from a trade, shared @ home, BB: V/2023 (2021-739) Thanks to Bierridder_S for the trade!

Little cloudy orange to amber beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit fruity, little oxidized, malty, very floral, roses, chemical impression, lots of banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: chemical, sweet, pretty bitter, banana, tannins. Aftertaste: dry, very bitter, banana peel, chemical, not very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Aug 2021 at 21:00

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
18/VII/21 - 33cl bottle from the brewery, shared @ my parents’ place, BB: VI/2023, bottled: VI/2021, lot: 2105P32 (2021-646) Thanks to Erwin for the bottle!

Clear to little cloudy deep blond beer, big huge creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: hoppy, some citrus, very yeasty, ripe banana, some vanilla, little buttery, diacetyl, bit of a sweet impression. MF: very lively carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, bit sweet, very yeasty, gentle bitterness, bit medicinal, more yeast, some banana peel. Aftertaste: grassy touch, more yeast, grassy, unpleasant bitterness, don’t like it very much… Tastes very messy...
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2021 at 17:00

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle. Color: Dark copper to ruby, very thin beige head, Aroma: Toffee, dark fruit, raisins, subtle apple / Calvados. Taste: Sweetish, sticky, toffee, caramel, dark fruit and raisins, fruity and boozy Calvados (apple), hints of oak wood. Medium sweet, light to moderate bitterness, very lightly tart (sour apple). Sugary, sirupy. Very low carbonation, over medium body. Dry-ish and sticky finish. Nice but a bit too sweet (in my opinion) slow sipper.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Jul 2021 at 19:33

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottle picked up from Belgiuiminabox, Antwerp, Belgium. Consumed at home Friday 7th May 2021 watching a film on Netflix, we had a prawn curry and a lamb curry for tea. Pours reddy/brown with an off white head. This is a big, full bodied beer, but first impressions are super sweet, really a sweet bomb, some dark dried fruits on nose and in the mouth, raisins, some caramel, malt. The calvados touch is there adding a light oakiness to the aroma. It's ok but ultimately far too sweet for me.
Tried from Bottle on 08 May 2021 at 03:06

7/10
Tried from Bottle on 30 Oct 2020 at 20:48

9/10
Tried from Bottle on 28 Oct 2020 at 20:21

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Thick beige head, absurdly stable, irregular, leaving lace over pitch-black beer. Roast, roasted caramel, toffee, dark green leaves, fir/spruce, bit gassy too. Bittersh, roast/burnt. Seen the addition of 'lekkies', surprisingly little sweetness.Finish has caramel and toffee, going to treacle. Chewy, viscous. Bitter gets stronger in the aftertaste. Pretty decent stout, but the lekkies don't do anything special. Or it ought to be the head stability.
Tried from Bottle at Siris Pop Up Bar on 20 Jun 2020 at 14:49